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(b.Joanne Harris is an Anglo-French author, whose books include fourteen novels, two cookbooks and many short stories. Her work is extremely diverse, covering aspects of magic realism, suspense, historical fiction, mythology and fantasy. She has also written a DR WHO novella for the BBC, has scripted guest episodes for the game ZOMBIES, RUN!, and is currently engaged in a number of musical theatre projects as well as developing an original drama for television.
In 2000, her 1999 novel CHOCOLAT was adapted to the screen, starring Juliette Binoche and Johnny Depp. She is an honorary Fellow of St Catharine's College, Cambridge, and in 2013 was awarded an MBE by the Queen.
Her hobbies are listed in Who's Who as 'mooching, lounging, strutting, strumming, priest-baiting and quiet subversion'. She also spends too much time on Twitter; plays flute and bass guitar in a band first formed when she was 16; and works from a shed in her garden at her home in Yorkshire.
Genres: Literary Fiction, Science Fiction, Mystery
Series
Vianne Rocher
1. Chocolat (1999)
2. The Lollipop Shoes (2007)
aka The Girl with No Shadow
3. Peaches for Monsieur le Cure (2012)
aka Peaches for Father Francis
4. The Strawberry Thief (2019)
1. Chocolat (1999)
2. The Lollipop Shoes (2007)
aka The Girl with No Shadow
3. Peaches for Monsieur le Cure (2012)
aka Peaches for Father Francis
4. The Strawberry Thief (2019)
Novels
The Evil Seed (1992)
Sleep, Pale Sister (1994)
Blackberry Wine (2000)
Five Quarters of the Orange (2001)
The Coastliners (2001)
Holy Fools (2003)
Gentlemen and Players (2005)
Blueeyedboy (2010)
Different Class (2016)
Sleep, Pale Sister (1994)
Blackberry Wine (2000)
Five Quarters of the Orange (2001)
The Coastliners (2001)
Holy Fools (2003)
Gentlemen and Players (2005)
Blueeyedboy (2010)
Different Class (2016)
Omnibus
Collections
Jigs and Reels (2004)
Because I'm a Girl (2010) (with Tim Butcher, Kathy Lette, Henning Mankell, Deborah Moggach, Marie Phillips, Irvine Welsh and Xiaolu Guo)
Any Girl Can Be a CandyKiss Girl! / Tea with the Birds / The G-SUS Gene (2011)
Auto-da-fe / Free Spirit / Fule's Gold (2011)
Class of '81 / Come in, Mr Lowry, Your Number Is Up! (2011)
Eau de Toilette / Fish / Never Give a Sucker... (2011)
Faith and Hope Go Shopping / Hello, Goodbye (2011)
Gastronomicon / The Ugly Sister (2011)
Last Train to Dogtown / The Little Mermaid (2011)
A Place in the Sun / Al and Christine's World of Leather / The Spectator (2011)
A Cat, a Hat, and a Piece of String (2012)
Four For Fantasy (2013) (with Brian Aldiss, Joe Hill and Richard Christian Matheson)
Because I'm a Girl (2010) (with Tim Butcher, Kathy Lette, Henning Mankell, Deborah Moggach, Marie Phillips, Irvine Welsh and Xiaolu Guo)
Any Girl Can Be a CandyKiss Girl! / Tea with the Birds / The G-SUS Gene (2011)
Auto-da-fe / Free Spirit / Fule's Gold (2011)
Class of '81 / Come in, Mr Lowry, Your Number Is Up! (2011)
Eau de Toilette / Fish / Never Give a Sucker... (2011)
Faith and Hope Go Shopping / Hello, Goodbye (2011)
Gastronomicon / The Ugly Sister (2011)
Last Train to Dogtown / The Little Mermaid (2011)
A Place in the Sun / Al and Christine's World of Leather / The Spectator (2011)
A Cat, a Hat, and a Piece of String (2012)
Four For Fantasy (2013) (with Brian Aldiss, Joe Hill and Richard Christian Matheson)
Novellas
Series contributed to
Doctor Who : Time Trips
The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Time Traveller (2014)
Doctor Who: Time Trips: The Collection (2015) (with Cecelia Ahern, Jake Arnott, Trudi Canavan, Jenny T Colgan, Stella Duffy, Nick Harkaway and A L Kennedy)
The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Time Traveller (2014)
Doctor Who: Time Trips: The Collection (2015) (with Cecelia Ahern, Jake Arnott, Trudi Canavan, Jenny T Colgan, Stella Duffy, Nick Harkaway and A L Kennedy)
Non fiction
The French Kitchen (2002) (with Fran Warde)
My French Kitchen (2003) (with Fran Warde)
The French Market (2005) (with Fran Warde)
The Little Book of Chocolat (2014) (with Fran Warde)
My French Kitchen (2003) (with Fran Warde)
The French Market (2005) (with Fran Warde)
The Little Book of Chocolat (2014) (with Fran Warde)
Awards
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Joanne Harris recommends
Crow Lake (2002)
Mary Lawson
"A remarkable novel, utterly gripping...I read it at a single sitting, then I read it again, just for the pleasure of it."
English Correspondence (2003)
Janet Davey
"A superb piece of writing ... elegant and subtle in a way you don't see very often these days."
Finding Helen (2003)
Colin Greenland
"A complex, darkly beautiful novel, filled with ominous possibilities and disturbing hints...this is English literary fiction at its best."
Full Dark House (2003)
(Bryant & May, book 1)
Christopher Fowler
"As filled with tricks as a magician's sleeve. Witty, charismatic, occasionally touching and with the genuine power to thrill."
Apple of My Eye (2003)
Patrick Redmond
"A dark and bloody tale which keeps the tension going right until the last page ... A superb, intelligent read."
The Embers of Heaven (2006)
(Jin-Shei, book 2)
Alma Alexander
"This book is a complete original - and a completely magical piece of writing."
The Matchmaker of Perigord (2007)
Julia Stuart
"A hilarious romp off the beaten track. Love it to bits."
The Hundred-Foot Journey (2008)
Richard C Morais
"I enjoyed this book very much. It has great charm and is colourfully written, sensuous and evocative."
The Lace Makers of Glenmara (2009)
Heather Barbieri
"A charming, moving story, written with a delicate touch."
Before I Go To Sleep (2011)
S J Watson
"A terrific first novel - well-written, genuinely unsettling and psychologically very plausible. Thrillers seldom come much better than this."
Sorry (2011)
Zoran Drvenkar
"A terrific book, very dark, very sinister, very original - really something special."
The White Lie (2012)
Andrea Gillies
"A really terrific read... Elegant, well written, genuinely gripping."
A Guide to the Beasts of East Africa (2012)
Nicholas Drayson
"P. G. Wodehouse meets Alexander McCall Smith."
On Copper Street (2017)
(DI Tom Harper Mystery, book 5)
Chris Nickson
"A vibrant sense of living history, with strong, well-drawn characters...I loved it."
From Darkest Skies (2017)
(From Darkest Skies, book 1)
Sam Peters
"A masterly piece of writing and plotting that manages to merge classy space-opera with a police procedural as twisty as a Christie."
The Last Namsara (2017)
(Iskari, book 1)
Kristen Ciccarelli
"An accomplished fantasy novel, of the kind I think of as 'royal palace shenanigans', raised above the commonplace by one marvellous central premise - the idea that dragons are the custodians of the old tale."
The Silent Patient (2019)
Alex Michaelides
"An excellent, slow-burning psychological thriller; sharp, clever and with a whammy that genuinely took me by surprise (it takes a lot to do this). Kudos to the author. More, please."
Shadows of Athens (2019)
JM Alvey
"I loved it; great sense of place, terrific characters and a cracking plot."
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